Between a booming art scene and elaborate Independence Day
festivities, July in lakeshore Oriole Point, Michigan, is
always a blast. Especially when an explosive murder case
crashes the fun…

As owner of The Berry Basket, Marlee Jacob has learned a
thing or two about surviving the summer tourist season in
Oriole Point. So she gladly agrees to help run the annual
road rally in honor of the local Blackberry Art School’s
centenary celebration. While alumni arrive from around the
country, Marlee hopes the expansive Sanderling farm will
make an appropriate starting point for the race—despite
rumors that the land is cursed…

But when Marlee surveys the property, she stumbles upon a
long-dead body hidden in the bramble. It’s a horrifying
mystery to everyone except her baker, who’s convinced the
skeletal remains belong to a former student who had gone
missing twenty years earlier. As the Fourth of July
activities heat up, Marlee must rush to catch an elusive
murderer—before the next ‘blackberry victim’ is ripe for
the picking!